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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ° PAGE 25

!" < FRIDAY, SEPT. 3, 1937

The Hoosier Forum—Continued

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all ean have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

(Continued from Page 20)

— It generally has the opposite effent. Many letters appear written in a logical, informative thought-provok-fng way that attract approving attention. May we have more of them. » EJ ” REQUESTS FREE TEXTBOOKS AS WELL AS BUS RIDES

By Guy D. Sallee. Petitioning Committee, Crooked Creek School District In reply to Charles M. Dawson's criticism of our petition tactics, we state our request. Eligible pupils are willing to go to high school, but he refuses them transportation. The previous Trustee established a Junior High School legally at the John Strange School, and Mr. Dawson abandoned this without obtaining by petition 60 per cent of the resident taxpayers. Therefore, he should provide for the education and transportation of pupils entitled to high school privileges (Ref. Acts of Special Session 1932 p. 42). Mr. Dawson also states he fis “transporting pupils to seven high schools outside the township.” He said he gave transfers only to pupils in schools outside the township. and grants transportation to children who walk from one to two miles to reach a bus. He said, “Parents of most of the high school pupils in our township are able financially to provide transportation, To furnish it to a few whose parents lack funds would increase the township tax rate too much.” Mr. Dawson is able to how the lowest budgeted cost of township government in the county, but at the expense of children “whose parents lack funds.” The forcing of children to ride in Dprivate cars, and failure to provide transportation, does not conform with the School Bus Laws. While circulating the petition, we were requested by many parents to petition for free school books. Therefore, we now have two petitions, and the voters contacted are 96 per cent favorable to both proposals. » » » VANNUYS GROUF HIT FOR SENATORIAL BOOM By Clvde FP. Miller It is hard to resist the urge to debunk the silly talk about Senator VanNuys being “entitled” to renomination because he courageously fought for his convictions on the court and other Administration policies. By the same token should not, the President and Senator Minton be commended for courageously

fighting for these same things that |

Senator VanNuys opposed? Oh no, it’s not courage and independence for which these Roosevelt haters are palavering over Senator VanNuys. It is only because he represents their views on these subjects. They are just indorsing their Senator VanNuys had just as courageously fought for instead of against these things his courage

and convictions would dissolve in!

their contempt. They want him renominated because he represents them—that’s all there is to it. And the reason I and the rest of the majority, consisting of “courage and

conviction” loving folk, oppose him |

is because he does not represent us. A party nominee should represent the views of a majority of the party. That is the only way party government can function. of the majority are representation. we oppose VanNuys. Loyalty to the party’s major leadership should be invielate and when honest convictions interfere with such loyalty, the representative should, in hone esty and courage, stand aside, » » 4 CALLS FOR THIRD PARTY TO DEFEAT NEW DEAL By Frank T. Baine Jr.

After more than four leng years of President Roosevelt's “Happy Day” Administration, he solemnly - admits that there still remains onethird of the nation ill-clad, illhouse, ill-fed. in spite of expenditure of billions of dollars. How much better off are the unemployed that were supposad to have been benefited? Ask anv one of them, and he will tell you he is no better off than at the beginning of the depression. In this country there are more than six million aliens who are working and faking the bread out of the mouths of the real American people who have paid taxes, fought for this ecountrv, and whose forefathers built the nation. Why do we not, deport at the expense of the deportees all the vast army of alien opportunists that infest this country and are causing radical agitation and strife today? - Then again, if all the women workers would give up their “man

own convictions. If |

The views | entitled to | On this basis alone |

men now walking the streets would go to work. and the country would be better off morally as well as socially. Then cut the work hours to 35 a week, retire men at 60, get rid of child labor in factories and we will be well on our way in absorbing the vast army of unemployed who are willing to work, but are unable to find a job. The so-called New Deal Admin{istration has so utterly failed the | laboring class in this that the only {alternative is to form a labor party as the third party, embracing all laber, both skilled and unskilled, Socialists, Communists, etc. We will put up John L. Lewis for President and La Follette for Vice President in 1940 and beat this New Deal. This is the unemployed people's way out of this rotten situation. » » n

WHAT WOULD A

SOCIALIST BECOME? By Bull Mooser

Here, in Montgomery County, no matter whether we elect Republicans or Democrats to office we get Republicans in office. The Democrats we elected in the last eiection have turned out to be more devout Republicans than the Republicans we defeated.

They read only Republican papers, and when you ask them for their viewpoint on present economic and political issues they quote you verbatim from the Republican press. They quote the Chicago Tribune as they would the Bible. Paraphrasing Will Rogers— “All they know is what they read in the newspapers.” And they read only Republican newspapers. They are what might be called Herbert Hoover Democrats. Mark Hanna used to say--“The Republican press will vote the Republican sheep in Indiana.” It seems to me the Republican press is also doing a pretty good job on the Democratic sheep. I wish to predict that the Democrats will not elect a single man in the next election in Montgomery County.

# ” HITS THOSE EXEMPT FROM INCOME TAX By James R. Meitzler, Attica

Many men have attempted to justify their actions or principles by alleging a similarity to those of Abraham Lincoln. It remained for Hiram Lackey to use Lincoln's financial incompetence as a justification for exempting the taxeaters of state and nation from paying their share of income tax as all other persons with equal incomes are forced to do. The worth of a Lincoln, and perhaps a Roosevelt, to the nation may deserve financial independence. But

a VanDevanter or a McReynolds? How about the horde that fatten on the taxpayers in every taxing unit from township to national govern- | ment? Z Says. Mr. Lackey, “the devotion of such a statesman to justice is i not, to be compared to the mania of

|a miser or the cunning of a corpo- {

ration.” Mr. Lackey's sneer at men | of property is of a piece with an en- | vious obsession which now threafens the two-thirds of | that are well fed, well clothed and | well housed. If it were not for the { money, intelligence, and industry of | those who have proven their financial ability, the incompetent one- | third would starve to death as they

{do in China and a Lincoln or a |

| Roosevelt would be powerless to save [ them.

! » on on | PARALLEL SEEN TN MOSCOW | AND INDIANA NEWS

| By Merely a Voter

Anyone who doubts the penetra- | tion of dictaterial methods into Indiana politics should have been interested in reading excerpts from two adjoining columns on the front page of The Indianapolis Times, Aug. 30. In the first column, the Governor of Indiana, attacking Senator VanNuys for performing his duty to his constituency in Indiana, { which, by the way, includes Repub-

how about a Buchanan or a Hoover, |

the people |

Additional letters from readers, Page 20.

licans as well as Democrats, (Gf it be that Republicans still are entitled to citizenship) said he “hated” to assail Senator VanNuys for “deserting President Roosevelt on the Supreme Court reform proposal, but somebody had to do it.” “The party can’t go two ways af the same time,” said Governor Townsend. According to the exclusive United Press dispatch, “He (the Governor) attacked malingering public officials,’ and urged, by inference, that the party's scorn be turned upon the Indiana Senator.” In the adjoining column, Webb Miller, in the first of a series of uncensored dispatches from Russia,

id: “It should be kept in mind that under the Bolshevik system (and other dictatorial systems for that matter) any opposition to or deviation from the ‘party line’ after the line once is laid down, constitutes a deadly crime. To deviate is treasonable, and automatically qualifies the dissenter as an enemy of the people—or even a deadly enemy if the holder of the adverse opinion is in a position of importance and trust.” As Webb Miller well points out, the recent execution of hundreds in Russia by firing squads at the instigation of the dictator Stalin, has been based upon a variety of charges, but, says Webh Miller in his dispatch: “They had one common focus—that the accused, in thought or deed, opposed the Stalinist, leadership of the Soviet regime.” Such an interesting parallel is rarelv to be found. Moscow and Indiana-—side by side. In Russia, physical execution: in the United States, to date, political execution only. Among the Soviets, Stalin—or death. In the land of the free, Roosevelt (court packing and all)—or planned political assassination. In Washington, as in Moscow, political punishment for independent, thought and action, and .required loyalty to a “charm personality, “rather than to the interests of the country, the prevailing policy of the political leaders. In the USS. R.—Stalin; in the U. S. A-—Mr. Roosevelt, with Messrs. Townsend, Guffey, Minton and Lewis, political satelites wielding the lash on the back of every representative of the people who in “thought or deed” opposes the existing political regime. How long shall we cease to be the land of the free and the home of the brave?” ” o »

| SEES PASTURAGE LUSH {BUT MILK PRICES TOO MUCH

| By a Housewife I wish sincerely that some one {would tell me why the price of milk | continues to be 12 cents per quart in Indianapolis. Last year

| turage was scarce because of

|eontinual talk of raising the price [to 13 cents. This year, the reverse lis true. Never was pasturage more {lush or plentiful, but there is no {mention of the price of milk being | decreased. As an obscure housewife, anv [formal protest from me would rate Ino reply, unless it be that stock [reply about the cost of labor and |operation continuing high. Our Imilkmen have received no raises, though. TI asked them. Ours is just a small family but lout milk bill would knock a hole in lanvbody's budget. I often wonder [how larger families manage. Undernourishment, in many instances, results. It is possible for us to buy other foods in quantity and effect a saving, storing them in the refrigerator or pantry. But we can’t buy milk that way; even if we use a gallon a day, we've got to pay the

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cents? The whole Milk Board setup seems to favor the milk bottlers; from accounts in the papers I notice that when farmers get 1 cent more per 100 pounds, the bottlers charge 1 cent more per quart. In the Chicago area of Indiana, it is possible to buy a gallon of milk for 23 cents, though not delivered. Milk, incidentally, that is higher test than we get in Indianapolis. By the quart one can get milk at 7 cents and 10 cents for high test milk. No doubt bottlers would say that was the result of cut-throat competition, but it's a break for the housewife and budget. From my view in the stadium, it seems as though the Milk Board in maintaining a high and now unreasonable price is giving everybody a break but the babies and children who use it. ” » ” VIEWS NEW DEALERS AS EXPERTS WITH SALVE By Mabel German We see by the papers the New Deal doctors are preparing to make a master “smear” to cover up the fact that President Roosevelt is determined to control the Supreme Court. They realize their only chance is to spread the salve on a

The contradictions of Roosevelt and the intimidations of Postmaster General Farley with “take them for a ride” methods will not do. do not need “salve doctors” to cover up, but Americans without fear to continue to expose and fight the corrupt methods of the Administration in its effort to merge the three branches of our Constitutional Government under one head, the President.

we will no longer be a free people. Democracy was never exercised under one-man rule, as President Roosevelt would so charmingly have us believe. He hopes to retain the

| “mandate of the people” by smear-

{ing over the true purpose of the

little thicker so the people can’t see. |

We |

When, and if, this is accomplished,

Do not be deceived, Republicans and Democrats. Join forces and preserve the fundamental principles of American Government. We are not concerned in gaining ‘something we do not already possess, only to | hold that which we already have—a | Government for and by the people, ”

# # [G. 0. P. PRESS WILL CARRY STATE, BULL MOOSER SAYS By Bull Monser, Crawfordsville

Mark Hanna used to say—'The Republican press will vote the Republican sheep in Indiana.” Of course what he meant was that public opinion didn’t have a chance against the power of propaganda of the Republican press. Many think this power of the Republican press has waned; but 1 think it is greater than ever. 1 would prophesy that the Repub|lican press will vote not only the Republican sheep but also the Dem{ocratic sheep in Indiana. As evidence for my contention I point ta some of the Democrats we elected in the last election. They walk around with a Chicago Tribune |sticking out of their pockets ana they keep two or three other Republican papers on their desk. Ask them about any of the present economic lor political issues and they will [quote you verbatim from the Repub[lican press | It's as Will Rogers said—"All we

[know is what we read in the news{papers.” And the trouble with the [Democrats in Indiana is that they [read only Republican newspapers. [For that reason I predict an easy [win for the Republican Party in In-

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